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“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
Source : Salman Rushdie (1990). “In good faith”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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“Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!”
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“My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.”
Source : "POPPY Z. BRITE: Just Not That Weird". Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. January, 1998.
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“I wanted to be like my heroes, but I also wanted to be me.”
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“Something inside you emerges....an innate, indwelling peace, stillness, aliveness. It is the unconditioned, who you are in your essence. It is what you had been looking for in the love object. It is yourself.”
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“The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.”
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“If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?”
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“It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up.”